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Breast Cancer Survivor Tells Her Story

PHILADELPHIA (CBS 3) ― Her story is, sadly, heard many times, a young wife and mother is battling breast cancer. But this year as preparations for Sunday's Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure begin, Lorelei McGlade wants to tell her story and hopes others will learn from it. She's this year's race ambassador.

"It's not the end of the world, you know you just move on and that's my message I want to get to everybody," Breast Cancer Survivor Lorelei McGlade said.

And that forward thinking attitude is the reason Susan G Komen for the Cure chose Lorelei McGlade to be their ambassador to tell her story.

"She goes, 'You have breast cancer.' I'm sorry I'm going to cry, but that's exactly how I reacted," McGlade said.

Lorelei just turned 43. She was a wife and mother and had everything to live for.

"I turned around to get to my husband, he was already standing there and we just you know held each other and we cried," McGlade said, "The first thing I said to him was 'My God, I think I'm going to die. What if I die? What's going to happen to me? To you and what's going to happen to the kids? Who's going to take care of them?"

Quickly Lorelei learned that her family and friends weren't going to let her fight cancer alone.

"She and her husband and I went wig shopping and we went to all these places and had so many laughs because we were all wearing wigs and if we wore a rock wig we would think we were rock stars," mother Ramona Sanabria said.

But even when they found humor the reality was always front and center since Lorelei was the third woman in her family to get breast cancer.

"It hurt me more to know this than when I was diagnosed. It was a pain in my heart because you don't wish this on anyone," Breast Cancer Survivor and Lorelei's aunt, Alisa Sanabria said.

But Lorelei's aunt, mother and friends knew that she needed them to be strong to help her beat the disease and spread the word that the fight against breast cancer can be won.

"Standing here today I don't know if I could have done it without the support of everyone," McGlade said.

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